Rent Boy, whose real name is Mark Renton and who also goes by Rents, lives in Leith and is friends with a group that includes Sick Boy, Spud, Begbie, and Second Prize. Like many of his friends, Rent Boy is a sometime heroin user who goes through cycles of heavy usage followed by attempts to kick his habit (often by taking a train to London to stay with friends). Rent Boy has a strained relationship with his family, partly due to his drug use and partly due to how his brother Billy was a bully to Rent Boy as kids. Out of all his friends, Rent Boy is the most well-read. He is also arguably the most cynical, partly due to his chronic depression, which gets worse during periods of heroin withdrawal. Rent Boy finds “mainstream” society like politics and the workforce unbearable, and he mostly survives by obtaining money through petty scams and crimes. Rent Boy struggles both in his relationships with women and with understanding his own seeming bisexuality, and this reflects his larger struggle to connect with other people in general. At the end of the novel, Rent Boy betrays all his friends, stealing the money they from a heroin deal and running away to start a new life in Amsterdam. Rent Boys final actions show how he has grown apart from his old life and needs to move on. Rent Boy’s conflicted feelings at the end of the novel reflect his conflicted feelings about Scotland—while he is excited about starting a new life, he regrets having to leave behind certain parts of his old one.
Rent Boy Quotes in Trainspotting
The Trainspotting quotes below are all either spoken by Rent Boy or refer to Rent Boy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Kicking
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The sweat wis lashing oafay Sick Boy; he wis trembling. Ah wis jist sitting thair, focusing oan the telly, tryin no tae notice the cunt. He wis bringing me doon. Ah tried tae keep ma attention oan the Jean–Claude Van Damme video.
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Rent Boy (speaker), Sick Boy, Johnny Swan
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Heroin
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Ah never wanted anything mair in ma life than fir her tae stoap screamin.— The bairn’s away . . . the bairn’s away. . . Dawn. . . oh my god. . . oh fuckin god, wis aboot aw ah could pick ootay the horrible sound. She collapses oantae the threadbare couch.
Relapsing
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Myth: Begbie’s mates like him.
Reality: Begbie’s mates fear him.
—It’s also a fuckin good kick.
Tommy looks at us. —Gies a go. Gies a hit.
—Fuck off Tommy.
—Ye sais it’s a good kick. Ah pure wantae try it.
An unspoken contract was forged between them in a split–second. Jackie’s screams reverberated around the stairwell, as they booted and dragged him from landing to landing. He vainly tried to protect himself and, through his fear and pain, hoped that there would be something left of him to move out of Leith, when the ordeal was over.
Kicking Again
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Perhaps, he allowed himself to speculate, they had some perverse parental feelings for her. He had noted that with older people. They often try to control younger, more popular and vivacious people; usually due to the fact that they are jealous of the qualities the younger people have and they lack.
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Rents picks up a stane and flings it at the squirrel. Ah feel likes, sick, ma hert misses a beat as it whizzes past the wee gadge. He goes tae pick up another, laughin like a maniac, but ab stoap um.
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Blowing It
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Ah walk tae freedom; perr auld Spud gits taken doon.
A polisman gestures tae him tae move.
—Sorry mate, ah sais, feelin cuntish.
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Ah have an unresolved relationship wi ma deid brother, Davie, as ah huv been unable tae work oot or express ma feelings about his catatonic life and subsequent death.
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Rent Boy (speaker), Davie Renton , Dr. Forbes
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Funny thing wis, jist before this, ah remembered boastin thit ah’d niver OD’d in ma puff. Thir’s a first time fir everything. It wis Swanney’s fault. His gear’s normally cut tae fuck, so ye always bung that wee bit mair intae the cooking spoon tae compensate. Then whit does the cunt dae?
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Rent Boy (speaker), Johnny Swan , Alison
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He wis ma felly. Ye eywis think it’ll be different, thit ye kin change. Thum, thit ye kin make a difference.
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Exile
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The pub sign is a new one, but its message is old. The Britannia. Rule Britannia. Ah’ve never felt British, because ah’m not. It’s ugly and artificial. Ah’ve never really felt Scottish either, though. Scotland the brave, ma arse; Scotland the shitein cunt.
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Anywey, ah widnae mind gaun aw the wey wi a gadge, if it felt right. Jist fir the experience. Problem is, ah only really fancy birds. Guys jist dinnae look sexy. It’s aw ahoot aesthetics, fuck all tae dae wi morality.
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“I always find the term ‘opportunistic infection’ amusing. In our culture, it seems to invoke some admirable quality. I think of the ‘opportunism’ of the entrepreneur who spots a gap in the market, or that of the striker in the penalty box. Tricky buggers, those opportunistic infections.”
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Davie Mitchell (speaker), Venters , Tommy, Rent Boy
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The guys are looking embarrassed, really shit up by the crowd that’s developed. It’s sortay like, feeding off itself.
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Home
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It aw started tae go wrong fir the perr bastard whin we came back up here. It nivir stoaped gaun wrong eftir that. Perr Matty.
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—Ah well, ah’ll leave yis tae it. Keep up the trainspottin mind! He staggered oaf, his rasping, drunkard’s cackles filling the desolate barn. Ah noticed that Begbie seemed strangely subdued and uncomfortable. He wis turned away fae us.
It wis only then ah realised thit the auld wino wis Begbie’s faither.
—It’s the fuckin best. You ken the Mother Superior, Rents. Ah believe in the free market whin it comes tae drugs. Ah’ve goat tae gic the NHS its due though. Since ah hud this pin oaf n went oan the maintenance therapy ah’ve started tae believe thit the state kin compete wi private enterprise in oor industry, n produce a satisfyin product at low cost tae the consumer.
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Johnny Swan (speaker), Rent Boy
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Heroin
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Tommy looks well. It’s terrifying. He’s gaunny die. Sometime between the next few weeks and next fifteen years, Tommy will be no more. The chances are that ah’ll be exactly the same. The difference is, we ken this wi Tommy.
Exit
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No. He had to stay in control, There was too much at stake. There was everything at stake. There is nobody looking at Begbie though. Those who are not oblivious to him, can feel the vibes he is giving out. They employ that special talent people have: Pretending nutters are invisible. Even his companions won’t meet his gaze.
Ironically, it was Begbie who was the key. Ripping off your mates was the highest offence in his book, and he would demand the severest penalty. Renton had used Begbie, used him to burn his boats completely and utterly. It was Begbie who ensured he could never return.
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Now, free from them all, for good, he could be what he wanted to be. He’d stand or fall alone. This thought both terrified and excited him as he contemplated life in Amsterdam.
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Rent Boy Character Timeline in Trainspotting
The timeline below shows where the character Rent Boy appears in Trainspotting. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Kicking
...of the book takes place), Sick Boy is shaking and sweating while the narrator ( Rent Boy ) tries to watch a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie. Sick Boy interrupts the movie to...
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It’s a cold day for August, and Rent Boy and Sick Boy have trouble hailing a taxi. There’s a group of men in tracksuits...
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...the nickname of Johnny Swan, a drug dealer who used to be good friends with Rent Boy but who became more businesslike after he started dealing. Johnny isn’t a big-time dealer, so...
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Rent Boy asks Raymie to put on some music, so Raymie puts on a live version of...
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...is depressed, and says that someone should go visit her at some point. She suggests Rent Boy (whose real name is Mark Rents, although Alison is one of the few people who...
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...Raymie, meanwhile, is off in his own little world, drawing on the wall in crayon. Rent Boy thinks about seeing Kelly. He thinks he might be too squeamish to have sex with...
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Junk Dilemmas No. 63. The narrator ( Rent Boy ), in the middle of a high, describes being afraid of the wallpaper in the...
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The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival. On his third try, Rent Boy feels that he has successfully kicked his addiction, having taken his last shot that morning....
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As Rent Boy settles into his bare room, he begins to feel the familiar symptoms of withdrawal, which...
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...someone is listening to “Golden Years” by David Bowie with the volume so high that Rent Boy can hear it. At last, the bus makes it to Forrester’s apartment. Forrester takes a...
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Forrester doesn’t seem to notice Rent Boy ’s urgency—he’s feeling really sick now—so he interrupts to ask Forrester if he’s ready to...
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Rent Boy doesn’t want to accept the suppositories at first, but Forrester says they’re exactly what Rent...
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As Rent Boy goes down the stairs of the apartment, he feels a little better, although he figures...
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Rent Boy enters a shop and heads to the restroom, but a man inside stops him from...
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When Rent Boy is done on the toilet, he goes searching in the bowl for his suppositories and...
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In Overdrive. A different narrator (Sick Boy) says he’s tired of Rent Boy talking so much to him. Rent Boy wants to go back to his place and...
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...to see a production of a play by Bertolt Brecht and are more impressed that Rent Boy knows his other plays. The women agree to meet them later for drinks, but Sick...
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...nervous whenever they hear the phone ring. Nina doesn’t like her cousins, including Mark ( Rent Boy ), who is supposedly into drugs.
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Stevie sees Rent Boy and Sick Boy at the party, and Sick Boy complains about how everything in the...
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Rent Boy reminds Stevie that he’ll be staying with him for a while in February. Stevie hoped...
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It Goes Without Saying. Rent Boy is hanging out with some friends, including Sick Boy, Spud, and Matty, when they hear...
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...Boy announces that he’s going to stay sober for the rest of his life, and Rent Boy almost believes him.
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...Dawn could easily have died from “cot death” (sudden infant death syndrome). Everyone agrees, so Rent Boy goes back into the main room and tells Lesley that Dawn died of cot death....
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Junk Dilemmas No. 64. Rent Boy ’s mother shouts at him from the other side of a door. He loves his...
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Speedy Recruitment. Spud and Rent Boy are at an American-themed pub. They talk about how they both have to interview for...
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Rent Boy ’s interview is first. He hates all the people he meets at the company and...
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Rent Boy panics that he might actually get the awful job. When an interviewer asks him to...
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Spud and Rent Boy meet at the pub afterward. Spud worries maybe he did too well and will get...
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Relapsing
The night before the Iggy Pop concert, Tommy invites Rent Boy over to watch Chuck Norris videos. The next day, he goes to visit his Ma...
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The Glass. Rent Boy ’s friend Begbie has a lot of problems. He’s moody and easy to make angry....
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When Rent Boy and Hazel arrive at the pub, Begbie greets them enthusiastically. June and Hazel don’t know...
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...to find the culprit, but no one in the other group wants to do that. Rent Boy helps the injured man with his bleeding.
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All of a sudden, Rent Boy sees a punch coming for him and turns just in time to avoid getting most...
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Rent Boy , however, knows this is a lie: Begbie’s brother got stabbed years ago and wasn’t...
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Cock Problems. Rent Boy has such a hard time finding a vein for heroin that the previous day, he...
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...out, it’s not the landlord but Tommy at the door, shouting through the mail slot. Rent Boy shoots up in his penis for the second time then begins to feel a little...
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Rent Boy remembers being back in school and watching with some friends (including Begbie) while Lizzy ran...
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Back in the present, Tommy, who uses other drugs but isn’t a heroin user, asks Rent Boy what it’s like to take heroin. Rent Boy hesitates but feels that he owes Tommy...
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Tommy says he wants a hit of heroin. Rent Boy refuses, but Tommy insists. The two of them get high together, and Tommy seems to...
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Davie figures out it’s Sunday. He remembers that yesterday, he, Tommy, Rent Boy , and some other friends went to a big soccer match. There, they did acid,...
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Junk Dilemmas No. 65. Rent Boy is really cold because the only candle in the room has gone out. He finds...
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Grieving and Mourning in Port Sunshine. Rent Boy ’s brother Billy is playing cards with some friends, including Lenny and Jackie. They’re playing...
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Kicking Again
Begbie goes to the pub with some friends to play pool, where he wins against Rent Boy . Begbie is looking forward to spending some time down in London, where Rent Boy...
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Begbie and Rent Boy get on a train to London that’s very crowded. Begbie is annoyed at all the...
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Just then some strangers come up and say that Begbie and Rent Boy are sitting in their seats. Rent Boy politely acts confused, but the strangers insist on...
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Rent Boy is very drunk and soon falls asleep, and so do the two Canadians. Begbie wakes...
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...maybe Begbie isn’t so bad after all. Begbie has just gotten back from staying with Rent Boy in London, and Spud suspects that Begbie was in trouble but wasn’t sure what kind.
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Rent Boy ’s father and some of Rent Boy’s other male relatives are at the pub, including...
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...Spud backs up against a wall and tries to punch and kick them off. Eventually, Rent Boy ’s father, Billy, and the other Rentons break things up. Spud sees that Dode is...
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The First Shag in Ages. After a day of getting stoned, Spud and Rent Boy go to a nightclub to get drunk. After the high wears off, they both have...
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As Rent Boy and Spud feel like some of the last ones in the nightclub who haven’t paired...
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Half an hour before closing time, Rent Boy lowers his standards for women. He sees a woman with long brown hair that he...
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Dianne and her friend go to the restroom. Dianne thinks Rent Boy is a bit of a jerk but still somewhat interesting, especially compared to the other...
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Rent Boy goes to leave the club alone and sees Dianne about to step into a taxi...
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Rent Boy isn’t sure if Dianne actually wants to have sex or if she really does just...
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Dianne reminds Rent Boy to stay quiet, then they start having sex. Rent Boy is happy with how his...
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Rent Boy is surprised and disappointed when Dianne tells him he has to go. She says he...
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Rent Boy hears the man and woman talking about how Dianne has brought another “friend” back. He...
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Dianne’s parents invite Rent Boy to breakfast and ask him what he does for a living. Rent Boy runs a...
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Rent Boy tries to stay calm in front of Dianne’s parents. Dianne’s father asks what Rent Boy...
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Rent Boy and Dianne stop in a record store, and Dianne looks around. Johnny Swan’s brother suddenly...
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Strolling Through The Meadows. Rent Boy points at a stain on Begbie’s pants and asks if he’s wet himself. Begbie gets...
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...The walk around and run into two high school girls they know through selling drugs. Rent Boy and Sick Boy hug them while Spud just stands there.
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Spud knows about Rent Boy and Dianne but thinks Rent Boy won’t take advantage of these two girls. Meanwhile, Sick...
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Rent Boy sees a squirrel and starts freaking out, throwing a rock at it and telling everyone...
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Rent Boy realizes too late that “dawn” will remind everyone of “Dawn,” Lesley’s child who died. Sick...
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Blowing It
Courting Disaster. Rent Boy and Spud are in court. The judge accuses them of stealing books from a bookstore...
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The judge says that Rent Boy seems to be trying to control his addiction, so he gives him a suspended sentence...
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Rent Boy and his family go to the pub and get drunk. Rent Boy’s Ma starts talking...
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Rent Boy and the others relocate to a new pub. Begbie is getting wound up, and Sick...
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...Boy says that Planet of the Apes can have sex with her for 50 pounds. Rent Boy is shocked that Sick Boy seems to be hiring the woman out for sex. Rent...
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Rent Boy confronts Sick Boy about trying to sell the woman to Planet of the Apes. Sick...
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Even though he’s surrounded by almost everyone he knows, Rent Boy feels alone. People at the pub start reminiscing about Spud. Begbie happens to notice June...
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Searching for the Inner Man. While Rent Boy has never gone to jail for heroin, he’s had to go to several counsellors for...
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Dr. Forbes asks Rent Boy more questions about why he dropped out of university. Rent Boy says he had a...
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Rent Boy isn’t sure how all of this relates to heroin addiction, and he thinks that in...
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House Arrest. Rent Boy wakes up disoriented in his childhood bedroom. As he recovers, he remembers taking too strong...
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Rent Boy ’s Ma comes in and tells him that everyone wants to help him fight his...
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Rent Boy ’s father comes into the room and starts lecturing Rent Boy about all the opportunities...
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Rent Boy ’s body aches, and he starts losing track of time. He starts hallucinating and having...
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When Rent Boy ’s parents leave, Rent Boy asks Sick Boy for heroin, but Sick Boy is trying...
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Sick Boy mentions that he heard recently from a woman they both know that Rent Boy had a difficult time getting it up in bed. He says Rent Boy is really...
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As Sick Boy predicted, Rent Boy ’s pain starts to go away, but he has to endure the worst depression he’s...
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At the club, Rent Boy can’t stand to drink his beer. Songs play on the jukebox, and Rent Boy’s parents...
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Rent Boy ’s father slips him some money and tells him to go buy the next round....
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Bang to Rites. Rent Boy is at his first burial. Billy died in the army, which some consider heroic, but...
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Rent Boy figures Billy’s death is good for him because it makes other people more sympathetic. Spud...
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Rent Boy starts flirting with his goth cousin, Nina, who smiles but gets embarrassed, until Rent Boy’s...
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As people keep reminiscing about Billy, Rent Boy stays silent because all his own memories are bad. At last, he feels he’s attracting...
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Rent Boy gets drunk and goes back to hitting on Nina, wondering if what he’s doing is...
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One of Rent Boy ’s more sensible uncles tells Rent Boy not to get in a fight, for his...
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Someone knocks on the bathroom door, temporarily interrupting Rent Boy and Sharon, but Rent Boy says Sharon has just had too much to drink and...
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One of Rent Boy ’s cousins, who’s a police officer, threatens to break the bathroom door down. Rent Boy...
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Junk Dilemmas No. 67. Rent Boy muses on how his addiction really isn’t so bad compared to all the children in...
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Exile
London Crawling. Rent Boy makes it to an apartment in London, but the people’s he’s looking for aren’t there,...
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Rent Boy goes into the Britannia and thinks it’s much worse than it was before the renovation....
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Rent Boy spends the night in a porno theater that screens movies all night. He falls asleep...
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Rent Boy did once get oral sex from a drag queen in London, then he returned the...
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...(short for Giovanni) and says he has a wife and kids back in Italy, but Rent Boy senses he might be lying. But Rent Boy is surprised when they finally make it...
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Gi starts saying the names of his wife and children, so at last Rent Boy stops attacking him and apologizes. He offers to take Gi to breakfast (which is conveniently...
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Rent Boy and finally makes it to Mel’s, where reggae music is still playing after an all-night...
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Rent Boy walks around the apartment and finds a room where a man and a woman are...
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...Davie Mitchell’s HIV support group are drug users. Davie Mitchell himself isn’t. He thinks of Rent Boy , a friend of Davie Mitchell’s friend Tommy, and how Rent Boy has somehow been...
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...A group of people high on drugs enter a bar. The group includes Spud, Begbie, Rent Boy , Alison, and Kelly. They all drink while Kelly flirts with Rent Boy. They see...
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...everyone eventually leaves the pub. It’s still dark, but Begbie suggests getting a big breakfast. Rent Boy doesn’t want to eat meat but ends up coming along, as do all the others....
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...group starts chanting soccer cheers and gets thrown out. They go to another pub, where Rent Boy and Kelly leave after a drink. Several drinks later, Alison says she’d like Spud to...
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...Free. In a pub, Kelly gets tired of listening to Alison say derogatory things about Rent Boy . She thinks it’s hypocritical that Alison wants to criticize Rent Boy when Alison has...
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Suddenly, Rent Boy shows up at the door of Kelly’s apartment. He’s a surprised to see Alison and...
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...her and asks if she’s seen Mark Hunt. She says she’s seen Mark Renton ( Rent Boy ) but no Mark Hunt. Sick Boy says that’s not who he’s looking for, so...
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Home
...Money for the Professionals. Begbie makes Spud promise to keep a secret, not even telling Rent Boy . Spud and Begbie take a taxi to June’s place, where she lives with Begbie’s...
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A Present. Rent Boy stays with his friend Gav for Matty’s funeral. Rent Boy doesn’t know the full story...
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Gav continues the story, telling Rent Boy how Matty got a brain hemorrhage then had a stroke at age 25. After the...
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Memories of Matty. Begbie, Rent Boy , Spud, Alison, and others have all gathered for Matty’s funeral. At a small chapel...
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...to stop singing so loudly. No one listens, although Begbie glares ominously at the bartender. Rent Boy tries to distract Begbie to diffuse the situation, reminiscing about a trip they went on...
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...at last Spud gives up and agrees. Begbie gets up and puts his arm around Rent Boy , saying that when he’s in London, he’d better take better care of himself than...
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Still the pub, Rent Boy goes over to join a conversation between Spud and Alison. Spud says he’s attended way...
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Straight Dilemmas, No. 1. A woman at a pub offers Rent Boy a mix of marijuana and opium to smoke. He says he’s always been too nervous...
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...be a slow night with poor tips at the bar where she works. She misses Rent Boy , who is still away in London. Four drunk upper-middle-class English patrons walk into the...
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Trainspotting at Leith Central Station. Rent Boy is back in Leith after being in London when he hears two men yelling near...
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Rent Boy keeps walking until he reaches a pub and finds Begbie already inside. Begbie greets him...
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Begbie tells everyone that Rent Boy is a great guy and no one should blame him for selling heroin to Tommy,...
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Begbie and Rent Boy make it to an old train station. Begbie laments that a person used to be...
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An old drunk man comes up to Rent Boy and Begbie and asks if they’re trainspotting (watching trains), then he laughs at his own...
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A Leg-Over Situation. Rent Boy goes to visit Johnny for the first time since his leg amputation. When Rent Boy...
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...start shooting heroin into his arteries, which gave him gangrene after just a few shots. Rent Boy can’t help looking at the site of Johnny’s amputation. Johnny says he knows exactly what...
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...sort of dealer who doesn’t use. He still talks about going to Bangkok, which surprises Rent Boy .
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...he’s eager to have sex but will probably have to pay for it. Johnny asks Rent Boy if he’s still having sex with Kelly. Slightly annoyed by the question, Rent Boy says...
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...is still HIV negative. He dreams of being in Bangkok and surrounded by Asian women. Rent Boy wants to leave soon but waits for an opening. Johnny doesn’t seem to acknowledge Rent...
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...diagnosis means he’ll likely die sometime in the next few weeks to 15 years. As Rent Boy sits longer in the old chair at Tommy’s apartment, he realizes that maybe some part...
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Tommy gets angry at Rent Boy , saying Rent Boy has shared needles with many people but never gotten HIV. But...
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Rent Boy realizes that Tommy’s apartment is so run down that it probably doesn’t get much heat—Tommy...
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Exit
Station to Station. Begbie, Rent Boy , Second Prize, and Spud wait for a bus, with Begbie holding an Adidas bag....
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...Begbie might draw if he gets violent. Even more worrying is how high Spud and Rent Boy seem to be. Spud in particular can be clumsy and might mess up their scheme....
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...about what he’d to do Molly. At last, Sick Boy gets back on the bus. Rent Boy thinks he knows Molly’s father. Sick Boy also knows him and says Molly’s father often...
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Sick Boy complains privately to Begbie that Rent Boy and Spud broke their promise to stay clean for the job. Begbie senses that Sick...
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In the bathroom, Rent Boy hesitates just a moment before shooting up. When he gets back, everyone seems more unified,...
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Rent Boy looks around the bus and sees some men in tracksuits and a blonde woman who...
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...kicks in, and he needs someone to talk to now that Sick Boy has left. Rent Boy pretends to sleep and wakes Spud up so that he’ll be stuck with Begbie. Begbie...
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...them their supply. After completing the deal, all of them go out to celebrate, except Rent Boy who stays back to watch their new money.
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Back at the hotel, Rent Boy looks in the Adidas bag, which holds more money than he’s ever seen before. Out...
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In Holland, Rent Boy feels relief but also some guilt about what he’s doing. He and Sick Boy went...
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